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Philharmonia Orchestra
Date: Tuesday 12th October
Venue: Main Auditorium - 7.30pm
Bedford Borough Council & BCEX presents
Philharmonia Orchestra
Leif Segerstam conductor
Alice Sara Ott piano
STRAVINSKY Suite, The Firebird
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SMETANA Má vlast (excerpts)
Dancing tunes and jumping rhythms abound in this programme as audience favourite Leif Segerstam opens the Philharmonia’s season at Bedford Corn Exchange. Stravinsky’s music to The Firebird glitters with magical colours describing the fairytale of the magic bird and the heroic prince; meanwhile Rachmaninov takes one of Paganini’s most famous tunes and transforms it in every way imaginable, through dazzling displays of pianistic virtuosity to Variation 18 that swells in the epitome of Romanticism. Finally Smetana’s symphonic poems about his homeland present visions of Czech legends and landscapes, with his famous evocation of the River Vltava running from the mountains through the countryside and into the city of Prague.
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